Dear MoveOn member,
Senior White House official Stephen Miller is the engineer of the "zero tolerance" policy that's tearing families apart. He should be fired immediately.1
Although public pressure has forced Trump to modify the policy for now, families—including children—can be indefinitely detained in what are essentially prisons. There are also no guarantees that the families torn apart will ever be reunited.2
Stephen Miller's policies are so objectionable that a Republican member of Congress said, "the president should fire Stephen Miller now. This is a human rights mess. It is on the president to clean it up and fire the people responsible for making it."3
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal separately said of Miller, "I don't think that most Americans understand that a 33-year-old individual with connections to white supremacists is actually crafting policies that are going to literally destroy our country and what we stand for."4
Recently, The New York Times reported that "Mr. Miller was instrumental in Mr. Trump's decision to ratchet up the zero tolerance policy."5 Last year, The Guardian reported Stephen Miller was also the policy architect behind the Muslim travel ban.6 The New Yorker reported that he was responsible for ending temporary protected status for Haitian, Salvadoran, and Honduran immigrants already living in the U.S.7
Miller's policies look like a page out of the white nationalist playbook—and that's because Miller has long identified with members of that movement. He even helped white nationalist Richard Spencer raise money for an immigration debate at Duke University.8
Stephen Miller's white nationalist policies have no place in America—let alone the White House. Children don't belong in cages, and families belong together.
Thank you!
–Matt Hildreth, America's Voice
Sources:
1. "The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants," The Atlantic, June 19, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41796?t=18&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
2. "Trump's order could mean families will be together in detention purgatory indefinitely. But where will they stay?" NBC News, June 21, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/42134?t=20&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
3. "White House aide Miller targeted in backlash over family separations," Politico, June 21, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/42135?t=22&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
4. Ibid.
5. "How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families," The New York Times, June 16, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41797?t=24&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
6. "Meet Stephen Miller, architect of first travel ban, whose words may haunt him," The Guardian, March 15, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/41798?t=26&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
7. "The Battle Inside the Trump Administration Over T.P.S.," The New Yorker, May 11, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/41799?t=28&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
8. "Stephen Miller's brash path from Duke campus to Trump White House," The Raleigh News & Observer, August 2, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/41800?t=30&akid=210001%2E10220574%2EayupZl
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